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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 199.

The Real Glory (1939)

Action, Drama, war film

In 1906, Alipang and his Muslim Moro guerrillas are terrorizing the people of the Philippine island of Mindanao, raiding villages, killing the men, and carrying off the women and children for slaves. Instead of maintaining garrisons indefinitely to protect the Filipinos, the United States Army tests out a new tactic at Fort Mysang. The army detachment is replaced by a handful of officers – Colonel Hatch, Captains Manning and Hartley, and Lieutenants McCool and Larsen – who are to train the native Philippine Constabulary to take over the burden.

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Riot (1969)

Drama, prison film, thriller film

While the warden (real-life warden Frank A. Eyman) of a state prison is away, the isolation block erupts and 35 of the most violent criminals stage a riot and take over their portion of the prison. Cully Briston, in for five years and awaiting his eventual parole, wants no part of the riot.

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The Golden Coach (1952)

Drama

The Viceroy of a remote 18th-century Peruvian town has ordered a magnificent golden coach from Europe, intending to pay for it with public funds. There is speculation that he is going to give it to his mistress, the Marquise, but he says he plans to use it to overawe the populace and flatter the local nobility, who enthusiastically look forward to taking turns parading in it. By coincidence, the coach arrives on the same ship that carries an Italian commedia dell'arte troupe composed of men, women, and children who perform as singers, actors, and acrobats.

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Love Lies Bleeding (2008)

Action, thriller film

Duke (Brian Geraghty) and Amber (Jenna Dewan) are a financially strapped young couple, both working menial jobs to survive, while their gangster neighbors continue to steal Duke and Amber's things. One day Amber gets home and finds the neighbors in the house, stealing a few things. They beat her up and leave.

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Linewatch (2008)

Crime, thriller film

Michael Dixon (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is an agent working linewatch for the United States Border Patrol on the U.S. Mexico Border in New Mexico. He is well-respected by his peers at US Border Patrol and loved by his wife Angela (Sharon Leal) and 5-year-old daughter Emily (Deja Warrior).

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Hannibal (2006)

Adventure, Biography, docudrama, Drama, Drama Documentary, Sword-and-sandal, war film

The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

Ken Manchester is an affluent travel enthusiast who has embarked on an expedition through the jungle of Borneo with his wife Barbara, despite her lack of enthusiasm. They are led by tour guide "Tennessee" Buck Malone, a down-on-his-luck expatriate who speaks the local language. During their trek, Buck and the Manchesters are ambushed by a tribe of cannibal headhunters and taken to their village.

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The Wild Stallion (2009)

Drama

Hanna Mills (Miranda Cosgrove), an 11-year-old girl from Cleveland, Ohio, wants to photograph wild horses for a project and to try to help save them. After visiting a ranch during summer vacation and befriending CJ (Danielle Chuchran), another 11-year-old girl, she learns about illegal activities that might jeopardize the mustangs. Along the way she learns about the horses including the legend of the black stallion.

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Courage of Lassie (1946)

Adventure, children's film, Drama

A young adult collie who is a descendant of Lassie is taken in by Kathie Merrick (Elizabeth Taylor) after being separated from his mother as a pup and growing up in a forest. Merrick names him Bill, and he begins working as a sheepdog under the supervision of the shepherd Mr. MacBain (Frank Morgan).

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Cage (1989)

Action, Drama, Martial arts

In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, GI Billy Thomas saves captain Scott Monroe's life, but gets shot in the head in the process. The extensive brain damage leaves him with diminished mental capabilities. After the war, Scott opens a bar in Los Angeles and keeps Billy under his wing, but they soon find themselves on shaky financial ground and targeted by mafiosi.

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Tycoon (1947)

Adventure, Drama, romance film

Johnny Munroe travels to South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel for Frederick Alexander, a wealthy industrialist. Complications arise when Alexander insists upon a shorter, more dangerous passage and when his daughter Maura develops a romantic interest with Johnny.

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Iguana (1988)

Adventure

The film takes place at the beginning of the 19th century. Oberlus (Everett McGill), a harpooner on a whaling ship, is regularly subjected to ridicule and abuse by other sailors. The right half of his face is bizarrely disfigured and covered with hummocky outgrowths, which leads him to being nicknamed Iguana.

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The Snake King (2005)

Adventure, Horror

Anthropologists deep in the Amazon uncover the remains of a man they come to determine was approximately 300 years old when he died. This leads to a second expedition to discover the reason behind his longevity, but there is a major problem in the form of an Amazonian tribe that guards the proverbial fountain of youth and the giant, multi-headed snake they worship. The scientists, led by Dr.

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The Overlanders (1946)

Drama, Western

In 1942, the Japanese army is thrusting southwards and Australia fears invasion. Bill Parsons becomes concerned, and leaves his homestead in northern Australia along with his wife and two daughters, Mary and Helen. They join up with a cattle drive heading south led by Dan McAlpine.

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Carter's Army (1970)

A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of securing an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allied advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These African-Americans had been relegated to cleaning latrines and therefore have little real military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice.

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The Gun Runners (1958)

Action, Drama, Noir

Sam Martin (Audie Murphy) runs a charter boat in the Florida Keys with his alcoholic first mate, Harvey (Everett Sloane). He struggles to make a living and pay off his boat. After a major customer loses his fishing gear, turns out to have no money, and is arrested for passing bad checks, Sam tries to recoup his losses by pawning some of his gear and gambling with the proceeds.

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The Shadow (1940)

Action, Crime, Drama

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is attempting domination of major financial and business concerns. Victor Jory's Shadow is faithful to the radio character, especially the radio show's signature: the sinister chuckle of the invisible Shadow as he confronts the villain or his henchmen. Columbia, however, relied on fistfights, chases, and headlong action in its serials, and disliked the prospect of a 15-chapter adventure where the audience would not see much of the heroics, because the leading character was supposed to be invisible.

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